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Wheeler Geologic Area Location within Colorado. The Wheeler Geologic Area is a highly eroded outcropping of layers of volcanic ash, located in the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, United States. [1] It is about 10 miles east north-east of Creede. The ash is the result of eruptions from the La Garita Caldera approximately 25 million ...
Exposed Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary at the Trinidad K-T Boundary Natural Area. The Wheeler Geologic Natural Area. The Colorado Department of Natural Resources has designated 95 Colorado Natural Areas. [1] Aiken Canyon Natural Area; Antero-Salt Creek Natural Area; Arikaree River Natural Area; Badger Wash Natural Area; Blacks Gulch Natural Area
Paonia State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Gunnison County east of Paonia, Colorado. The 1,857-acre (7.52 km 2) park in a canyon surrounding Paonia Reservoir on the North Fork Gunnison River was established in 1964. Park facilities include campsites, picnic sites and a boat ramp.
This is a list of the state parks in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages the state park system to accommodate both outdoor recreation and tourism. There are currently forty-two parks open to the public, and there are others in development. [1] Colorado State Parks host over eleven million visitors each year.
State Forest State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Jackson and Larimer counties east of Walden, Colorado, United States. The 70,838-acre (286.67 km 2) park was established in 1970 in the Medicine Bow Range of the Rocky Mountains.
There are 17 National Natural Landmarks in U.S. state of Colorado, one of which extends into Wyoming. They cover areas of geological, biological and historical importance, and include lakes, mountains, rock formations and numerous fossil sites. The landmarks are located in 14 of the state's 64 counties. Five counties each contain all or part of ...
Mueller State Park is a Colorado state park encompassing 5,112 acres (20.69 km 2) of land outside Divide, Colorado, west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. [2] The park offers many outdoor activities. There are 55 miles (89 km) of trails, biking , camping year-round, hunting , hiking , and horseback riding . [ 3 ]
The Colorado Province took shape as a mobile belt—an area of thinner, orogeny related continental crust lacking the deep "keel" of rock, which stabilized the neighboring Wyoming Craton and other cratons like it. Throughout Colorado's geologic history, rocks have often been deformed, metamorphosed and overprinted, obscuring the ancient record.